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Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books — Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the heating up market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them …
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble settle patent dispute; create new subsidiary — Summary: Microsoft and Barnes & Noble just became unlikely allies, settling a patent dispute and forming a new subsidiary in one fell swoop. — Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have settled their patent dispute …
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The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules — The Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, where it has an active supporter base — File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. — The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music and video.
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Skype Reveals Remote and Local IP Address Of All Online Users — If you are a user of the messaging software Skype, you know that you can see the location of your contacts in the Skype interface. What you probably do not know is that there is currently a way to display a Skype user's remote and local IP address as well.| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made — When Eric Migicovsky, an engineer, wanted to develop a line of wristwatches that could display information from an iPhone — like caller ID and text messages — he went the traditional route of asking venture capitalists to finance his company.
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Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Founders Fund And More To Launch Her First App, Weduary — Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of tech, is today announcing a $1.25 million seed round for her technology and content company Brit. The list of investors is actually pretty sympatico with … | Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
BladeLogic founder joins VC firm, Greylock Partners — Greylock Partners, seeking more operational experience in the enterprise sector, named Dev Ittycheria, an operations guy who made his name in enterprise software, as its newest partner. — VCs and startups alike have been in the hunt …
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TheFind launches Glimpse, a Pinterest rival built on Facebook likes — Pinterest's rise has helped highlight the value of social discovery over traditional search for shopping and the lesson hasn't been lost on competitors. TheFind, a shopping search site with a trove of product data …
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Mark Zuckerberg joins Viddy - it might really become ‘Instagram for video’ now — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just signed up to video sharing mobile app Viddy, and he has just posted his first video on the service too. — ‘Zuck’, as his nickname on the service is, posted a video of his dog Beast playing around in his house.
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Google to court: Galaxy Nexus code is closed just like that of the iPhone — Apple and Google routinely have discovery disputes. Apple's second California action against Samsung, which includes a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, is already the eighth U.S. lawsuit …
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Visa digital wallet V.me launching in UK, Spain, and France this fall — Visa has announced that its digital wallet solution V.me will be launching in the UK, France, and Spain starting this fall. The service, which was announced last year, lets users combine their bank accounts with credit … | Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
LG Cloud, a streaming service for all three of your screens, launches on May 1st — LG is entering the cloud service race, allowing users to upload their content to the company's servers and stream it to all of their devices. LG Cloud enters beta on May 1st and will let you access … | Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple Is Doomed: The Phony Sony Parallel — In the weeks preceding the April 24th release of Apple's quarterly earnings, a number of old canards sent the stock down by about 12%: Carriers are going to kill the iPhone Golden Goose by cutting back “exorbitant” subsidies; iPhone sales … | Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: |
Theoretical physicist explains why Moore's Law will collapse — Moore's Law has been around since 1965 when Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore described it in a paper. Since that day, the law has been in full effect, and the number of transistors placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has roughly doubled every two years.| Sydney Morning Herald: |
Parliament probes technology price gouge — Apple and Microsoft will be among technology companies asked to explain to Parliament why Australians pay much more for music and game downloads from iTunes, for example, than overseas customers. Federal Labor politicians are hoping the publicity generated …
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